Tag: MIxtape

Healthcare - Creating Value for Patients Why do we have to wake up patients to take vital signs every 4 hours if they are stable? ...

Healthcare - Creating Value for Patients Too often, patient involvement in design and research is tokenist or "tick-box", and requires burdensome processes for participation.  To truly design...

Hi All -  here's a collection of the most read Mixtape links from 2018.  I compiled the links with the greatest number of viewers and...

Mark's Note: I've known Ryan McCormack for many years now, thanks to his previous work in Lean healthcare and his attendance at Lean Healthcare...

Healthcare - Creating Value for Patients Healthcare is the world's largest cottage industry, as evidenced by the enormous variation in practice.  Healthcare practitioners may finally be...

Healthcare - Creating Value for Patients Hospitals have been collecting patient complaint data for decades, but leveraging the data for improvement has remained elusive.  Some new...

Healthcare - Creating Value for Patients The benefits of Electronic healthcare records are a polarizing topic with healthcare providers.  Standardization and electronic workflows have their...

Healthcare - Creating Value for Patient A lot can be done to optimize flow in hospitals without investing in additional staff and infrastructure by using an...

Healthcare - Creating Value for Patient CMAJ summarizes how to improve the quality of healthcare in Canada.  Nothing new here, which begs the question - what...

Healthcare - Creating Value for Patient Creating value for patients isn't a "project".  Lean thinking isn't a program you "implement" in a hospital over a...

Healthcare - Creating Value for Patient The legendary quality leader W. Edwards Deming is widely known for his thoughts on statistics and systems.  However, Deming...

Healthcare - Creating Value for Patient Canadian healthcare is where "pilot projects come to die".  There is a lack of a culture of innovation in Canadian...